As SBS and NAIDOC Week mark 50 years, NITV and SBS will “supercharge” NAIDOC Week 2025 from Sunday 6 July to Sunday 13 July.
Recognising the numerous contributions of the world’s oldest steady tradition, NITV and SBS’s intensive line-up consists of the NAIDOC Awards digital broadcast, an leisure sequence, information and present affairs applications and documentaries exploring the theme, The Subsequent Era: Power, Imaginative and prescient & Legacy.
Tanya Denning-Orman, a proud Birri and Guugu Yimidhirr girl and Director, First Nations at SBS, mentioned: “This yr marks a big milestone as we rejoice 50 years of NAIDOC Week, and likewise 50 years of SBS as a community. We’re proud to honour the energy of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and cultures by way of programming throughout NITV and all SBS platforms, and replicate on the legacy of previous leaders and draw inspiration from the following era. Our content material showcases the achievements and voices of First Nations peoples, unapologetically Blak, loud, and proud, premiering new unique NITV commissions, and amplifying Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices proper throughout the community.
“As soon as once more, Shelley Ware’s academic sources by way of SBS Study will foster deeper understanding and connection for college kids throughout the nation. We’re additionally proud to function this yr’s NAIDOC Week poster art work, ‘Ancestral Strains,’ created by Ngarbal Gamilaraay artist and NITV graphic designer, Jeremy Worrall, which is a strong tribute to intergenerational data and cultural energy.”
Nationwide NAIDOC Committee Co-Chairs, Steven Satour and Lynette Riley, mentioned: “NITV has delivered a lethal line-up for NAIDOC Week 2025 — a real celebration of Blak excellence on display. From groundbreaking documentaries to laugh-out-loud leisure and thought-provoking present affairs, this programming honours our previous, celebrates our current, and champions our subsequent era.
“As we mark 50 years of NAIDOC Week, we’re proud to see our tales advised with such energy, satisfaction and creativity. We’re particularly thrilled to have Barkaa headlining the 2025 Nationwide NAIDOC Awards — her voice, her hearth, and her message embody the center of this yr’s theme: The Subsequent Era: Power, Imaginative and prescient & Legacy.”
SBS and NITV’s multiplatform and multilingual providing consists of:
The 2025 Nationwide NAIDOC Awards will take centre stage in Boorloo (Perth), honouring the excellent achievements of First Nations individuals throughout the continent. Hosted by 10 Information First’s Narelda Jacobs OAM and Mark Coles Smith, this yr’s NAIDOC Awards are set towards the backdrop of Whadjuk Noongar Nation in Boorloo (Perth). The awards shine a highlight on those that lead with energy, creativity, and Cultural satisfaction. NITV, as the house of Indigenous storytelling on nationwide tv and digital media, is the Principal Media Accomplice and shall be on the bottom to seize all the color, celebration, and neighborhood spirit — from Blak carpet arrivals and highly effective performances to unique interviews with this yr’s winners and changemakers. Saturday 5 July at 7:30pm (WST) (9:30pm AEST) on SBS On Demand, and NITV’s Fb and YouTube channel, and distributed to First Nations Media Australia (FNMA).
Ablaze is an unimaginable biographical documentary from opera singer Tiriki Onus, who finds a 70-year-old silent movie believed to be made by his grandfather, Aboriginal chief and filmmaker Invoice Onus. As Tiriki travels throughout the continent and items collectively clues to the movie’s origins, he discovers extra about Invoice, his struggle for Aboriginal rights and the value he paid for talking out. Premieres on NITV and SBS On Demand on Sunday 6 July at 8:30pm.
To kick off NAIDOC Week, SBS’s Elder in Residence, Widjabul Wiabul girl Rhoda Roberts AO, will ship her third annual SBS Elder in Residence Oration, making a historic file of Indigenous thought management whereas addressing present challenges and futures aspiration. The SBS Elder in Residence Oration supplies a platform for First Nations voices to be amplified, providing an area for reflection, connection, and studying for all Australians. Premieres on NITV and SBS On Demand on Sunday July 6 at 6:30pm.
Weekly flagship Indigenous information and present affairs applications Dwelling Black, and The Level can even premiere particular NAIDOC Week episodes.
Dwelling Black is Australia’s longest operating Indigenous present affairs tv program, that includes inspiring and influential individuals speaking about their lives and careers. Walkley Award-winning journalist Karla Grant explores the problems affecting First Nations peoples by way of candid interviews and highly effective investigations. For this NAIDOC Week episode, she interviews legendary Australian tennis icon Evonne Goolagong Cawley AC MBE. Fifty years after profitable the Australian Open, Evonne remains to be firmly entrenched within the sport. Eager to listen to her insights, Karla travelled to Darwin to attend the Nationwide Indigenous Tennis Carnival the place she spoke to Evonne about her extraordinary life and profession, and the way her basis is looking out for the following era of tennis stars. Dwelling Black, that includes Evonne Goolagong Cawley AC MBE and hosted by Walkley Award-winning Government Producer Karla Grant, premieres on Monday 7 July at 8:30pm.
The Level is the house of First Nations views, with the group travelling the nation to listen to from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians. Be part of proud Wuthathi and Meriam man and SBS and NITV Nationwide Indigenous Affairs Editor, John Paul Janke, as NAIDOC celebrates 50 years. On this episode, The Level sits down with rising leaders who proceed of their ancestor’s footprints. What’s it like to hold a reputation like Mabo, Dodson, or Bayles? The Level will premiere a NAIDOC-themed episode on Tuesday 8 July at 7:30pm, hosted by Nationwide Indigenous Affairs Editor John Paul Janke.
Large Yard Quiz (BBQ), a cheeky new leisure sequence hosted by 10 Information First’s Narelda Jacobs OAM and comic Steven Oliver that challenges contestants to see who is aware of essentially the most in regards to the individuals and historical past of Australia from a Blak lens. This season’s stellar line-up of comedians as contestants consists of Meyne Wyatt (The Moogai, We Are Nonetheless Right here), Shari Sebbens (The Moogai, Little J & Large Cuz), Matt Okine, Nina Oyama, Rhys Nicholson and Emma Holland, all in Episode 1. Additionally that includes this season shall be Ernie Dingo, Rove McManus, Tasma Walton, and Peter Rowsthorn. Large Yard Quiz is government produced by Adam Manovic and Daniel Gallahar and was filmed with the assist of ScreenWest in Boorloo (Perth). Saturday 12 July at 7:30pm on NITV and SBS On Demand.
Emily: I Am Kam (pronounced karma) is a heartfelt documentary about internationally famend artist, Emily Kam Kngwarray from the Utopia neighborhood within the Northern Territory. The movie delves into Emily Kam Kngwarray’s transformative influence on the worldwide up to date artwork world and her enduring legacy, offering a uncommon alternative to witness her journey and the profound affect of her artwork and the facility of Emily’s work to guard her Nation, Alhalker. The documentary is produced by Tamarind Tree Photos and directed by Danielle McLean (Barrumbi Children). Premieres on NITV and SBS On Demand on Wednesday 9 July at 8:30pm, and on SBS on Saturday 12 July at 8:30pm, after its world premiere at Sydney Movie Competition this month.
Along with the above content material, a devoted hub of iconic and award-winning First Nations content material shall be obtainable to stream free on SBS On Demand and can air throughout the community’s channels. SBS will share information and data in additional than 60 languages throughout the community this NAIDOC Week.
Multilingual and multiplatform protection by way of SBS Audio shares First Nations views, celebrates cultures, knowledges and historical past, and showcases SBS’s distinctive means to attach the most recent Australians with the world’s oldest dwelling steady tradition. The SBS Audio providing consists of movies, podcasts and articles in Filipino, Vietnamese and Urdu, and a particular NAIDOC Week explainer video in Arabic, English, Greek, Mandarin, Punjabi and Vietnamese.
Extra highlights of the multiplatform providing throughout the SBS community throughout NAIDOC Week embody:
NITV Information – Masking NAIDOC occasions from throughout the week and sharing the newest information from the oldest dwelling tradition, be part of Mudburra and Wagadagam girl Natalie Ahmat, Yorta Yorta and Gunditjmara man Michael Rennie, and Worimi girl Breanna Holden for NITV Information. Supported by a group of journalists, watch NITV Information for tales from an Indigenous perspective, culminating on Friday 11 July with a particular version of Nula at 5.30pm, that includes NAIDOC marches and neighborhood gatherings from across the nation. Monday to Thursday, 7-10 July at 6.30pm and Friday 11 July at 5:30pm on NITV and three:00pm on SBS and SBS On Demand
All through the week, SBS Meals is proud to current NAIDOC themed episodes of The Cook dinner Up with visitor host Nornie Bero (Island Echoes with Nornie Bero), premiering weekdays from Monday 7 July to Wednesday 9 July at 7:00pm. Nornie will share tales and create unimaginable dishes with company together with entertainer Jay Wymarra, the ‘Bush Tukka Girl’ Samantha Martin, comic Andy Saunders, and journalist Rae Johnston (Going Locations with Ernie Dingo and The Secret DNA of Us).
SBS World Films will host a curated assortment of acclaimed Australian cinema telling Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ tales from Monday 7 to Friday 11 July at 9:30pm. This consists of Candy As, Mad Bastards, Walkabout, Bran Nue Dae and The New Boy.
College students round Australia can uncover extra by way of SBS Study’s fashionable NAIDOC Week schooling useful resource, authored by proud Yankunyjatjara, Kokatha and Wirangu girl Shelley Ware. That is the seventh Nationwide NAIDOC Week curriculum-aligned schooling useful resource developed by Shelley for SBS Study. It’s a useful and culturally knowledgeable on-line instructing information that includes actions, dialogue prompts and movies to allow academics to embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander views into main and secondary school rooms all year-round.
As a part of NAIDOC Week and aligning with this yr’s theme of The Subsequent Era: Power, Imaginative and prescient & Legacy, NITV will launch a choice of Jarjums branded interstitials with First Nations kids sharing their tales of tradition and language.
The NAIDOC Week Assortment, together with Shelley Ware Visitor Curates and extra, will stay on the NITV Muy Ngulayg hub, a devoted streaming hub on SBS On Demand that gives a platform for First Nations storytelling together with First Nations movies, documentaries and TV sequence from Australia and around the globe that illuminate interior data, conventional tradition and lore.
SBS’s Nationwide NAIDOC Week activation proudly continues the work set out in SBS’s Elevate Reconciliation Motion Plan 2022-2026. This plan outlines SBS’s dedication to reflecting, exploring and embedding First Nations tales, knowledges, cultures and languages throughout the community, and to connecting the oldest steady tradition on Earth with the most recent Australians.
